My life, my being, my accomplishments; those circumscribing inspirers and condemners, are comprehensively subordinate to my own will…
“The life of a man is a self-evolving circle, which from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outward to new and larger circles, and that without end. The extent to which this generation of circles, wheel without wheel, will go, depends on the force or truth of the individual.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Circles, 1841
A Classicist Writes... 